MadLab

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MadLab Tesuji Solver is a program for solving open-space capture problems. It runs on all major platforms and is available at [ext] http://www.t-t.dk/madlab.

The program guarantees 100% correctness of its solutions, and it can also analyze whole games. MadLab comes with 997 capture problems extracted from real high-level games, and there is a free 9x9 version available. The 997 capture problems can be freely downloaded as sgf files here: [ext] http://t-t.dk/madlab/problems.

Example of an open-space capture problem (LuckySProblem):

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Black to capture the two marked stones.

The problem is open-space since the marked stones are not surrounded by outer walls of stones like semeai or tsumego problems. MadLab is aimed at open-space capture problems, and the engine is based upon the so-called lambda-search algorithm. A paper on the algorithm and some illustrative source code is available here: [ext] http://www.t-t.dk/go/cg2000/index.html.

Author of MadLab: Thomas Thomsen.


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